RPG · March 1, 2022

Hero’s Hour (2022)

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Hero's Hour is an accessible, yet-deep and content-rich Strategy Roleplaying Game. Take control of your hero, explore the world, build up your town, fight fast-paced battles, level up your hero and amass an army large enough to take out the opponents - before they take you out. Turn Based + Real Time While exploring the overworld and developing your town and army are both turn-based, giving you time to think and plan out your next moves, in battles your units will do the best to fight for themselves in real time - all hundreds of them. Cast spells and give attack orders to swing the tide of battle - or just sit back and watch as your might unfolds. Procedural Generation Hero's Hour brings impactful procedural generation to the strategy game formula, ensuring that every time you play, there will be new areas to explore and strange buildings to enhance your hero or army. Seek out obelisks to start you on small procedural quests that send you around the world. You won't even be able to use the same build order each time you play the same faction. Features 11 factions with special mechanics, strengths and weaknesses 22 hero classes, with a special skill each 50 common hero skills 177 units (and 99 upgraded units) 80 unique unit abilities 166 artifacts 83 spells (+18 spells unlocked via skills) Dozens of impactful map buildings Local 'hotseat' multiplayer Co-op with other players or even with the AI Being on the faster side compared to other turn based strategy games, you may even be able to finish the hotseat games that you start!

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Turn-Based · 522
  • Pixel Graphics · 518
  • Strategy · 513
  • Singleplayer · 508
  • Turn-Based Strategy · 504
  • Fantasy · 503
  • Auto Battler · 498
  • Strategy RPG · 487
  • Turn-Based Tactics · 486
  • Level Editor · 484
  • Multiplayer · 482
  • Procedural Generation · 470
  • RPG · 469
  • Old School · 468
  • 2D · 456

Peer RPG titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in RPG

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume5.4k Steam reviewsTop 54% in RPG
Positive rating80% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 74%
Metacritic82/100Genre average 78 — top 37% of RPG titles
Engagement hours8 h averageTop 90% for session depth among RPG

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Shared/Split Screen PvP
  • Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud
  • Stats

Other

  • Single-player
  • Includes level editor

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English
  • Spanish - Spain
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish - Latin America
  • Traditional Chinese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

80%Mostly Positive · 5.4k reviews

4.3k positive · 1.1k negative

Metacritic

82/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

4.5k

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

8h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

1h

Current engagement

Achievements

61

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 1, 2022
DeveloperBenjamin "ThingOnItsOwn" Hauer
PublisherGoblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited
Base price$7.19 -60%
DLC / Add-ons2 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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